underbiding

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by underbiding 2y ago
I love this argument. "Seems like only difference between me and ChatGPT is absolutely everything". You can't be flippant about scale not being a factor here. It absolutely is a factor. Pretending that ChatGPT is like a perso
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by underbiding 2y ago
It's pretty classic in-group / out-group conditioning. In fact, incentivizing your enemies to also commit their own atrocities incentivizes your own to fight to the absolute last. The depravity and feedback loop is intentional for
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by underbiding 2y ago
Why is bailout still seen as the best solution? These industries should be nationalized. Despite the naysayers there are plenty of nation-owned assets that work fine this way and if its this important then it sounds like a worthy candidate
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by underbiding 2y ago
I think it's "plainly obvious" the the people pushing for this keep repeating the same argument, that is, they have no argument, they just say "duh, obviously watchtowers work!". This isn't evidence-based polic
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by underbiding 2y ago
Personal take: Education / pedagogy needs to pull itself up finally and actually learn to modernize and change the fact that its absolute core model hasn't changed for hundreds of years. Rote memorization and examinations as being
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by underbiding 2y ago
i mean, it is pretty much what I expected it to mean. It's a macro for semantic instructions. I didn't really see any LLM "bullshit", just a way to macro using an LLM... Did you expect this to be something different?
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by underbiding 2y ago
Where does the perception that signing a physical piece of paper with pen is an important part of a secure audit trail? If a signature is meant to represent both intent and identity, what is it about the physical medium which makes it more
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by underbiding 2y ago
but its not really photoshop either because its targeting vector based graphics, whereas Photoshop is mainly raster-based. I'm not up on Adobe (I use InkScape which is sort of the default open-source / free alternative) but I gues
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by underbiding 2y ago
the studies are about outcomes of parachute use writ-large ("gravitational challenges"), not just helicopters. Only reason I'm being pedantic here is because if the study was in-fact looking at parachutes from helicopters, it
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by underbiding 2y ago
The difference is that Apple doesn't try and pretend their platform is open-source, whereas Google wants to have its cake (i.e. impose competitive blockers on their own platform) and eat it too (i.e. benefit from calling their platform
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by underbiding 2y ago
True true but how do you account for missing data based on variables you care about and those you don't? More specifically, how do you determine if the pattern you seem to be identifying is actually related to the phenomenon being meas
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by underbiding 2y ago
The real elephant in the room is all the apps that are basically packaged web browsers but also want all sorts of absurd permission privileges so it can harvest user data to sell.
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by underbiding 2y ago
Jesus get a grip. "debasement" and "pollution". Language is living. Get off your high horse. People are allowed to invent and use new words and terms. Language evolves with use, not by people like you holding on to dear
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by underbiding 2y ago
"holistics", "edge", "final destination data delivery" are all buzz words.
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by underbiding 2y ago
This is purely by convention though. There really isn't anything that all that unique about being a street general police officer that would lend itself to being a detective. It's all survivorship bias because criminal detectives
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by underbiding 2y ago
These kind of responses (yours, zx10rse) are the absolute worst appeals to anecdote and bias I can think of. Someone actually comes along with a logical argument so you just give up and say "yeah well uhhh I'd like to see you try&
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by underbiding 2y ago
Crazy, who would've thought that a country being fully embargoed for 50+ years by the world's biggest economy might have difficulty obtaining goods?